Tol'able David (1930)
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Director: John G. Blystone
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Richard Cromwell as David Kinemon |
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Noah Beery as Luke |
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Joan Peers as Esther Hatburn |
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Henry B. Walthall as Amos Hatburn |
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Tom Keene as Alan Kinemon |
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Edmund Breese as Hunter Kinemon |
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Barbara Bedford as Rose Kinemon |
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Helen Ware as Mrs. Kinemon |
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Harlan Knight as Iska Hatburn |
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John Carradine as Buzzard Hatburn |
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James Bradbury Sr. as Galt |
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Richard Carlyle as Doctor |
| Directing | John G. Blystone | Director |
| Writing | Joseph Hergesheimer | Novel |
| Writing | Benjamin Glazer | Writer |
| Camera | Ted Tetzlaff | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Glen Wheeler | Editor |
| Art | Edward C. Jewell | Art Direction |